Some Silicon Valley execs, having made a mint, retire to fabulous homes,
sail their yachts around the world, or start charitable foundations. And
some fund hate speech.

Former semiconductor magnates Carl Story and R. Vincent Bertollini, for
example, are pouring their cash into the Biblical-separatist movement in
Idaho. (The two reject the term white supremacist as a "Jewish political
tool of propaganda.") Last year, they paid for mass mailings of 9,000-plus
videos, pamphlets, and posters touting Biblical separatism.

"It was the most sophisticated mass mailing we've seen from a
hate group," says Anti-Defamation League counsel Sue Stengel.

Refusing to respond beyond a few terse emails, Bertollini says the two
have spent more than $1.5 million. In addition to funding their own group,
the 11th Hour Remnant Messenger - of which they're the sole members - they've
backed the Aryan Nations.

Story and Bertollini first got rich as engineers and entrepreneurs who
helped build now-defunct Cupertino-based semiconductor-equipment maker
I.I. Industries and San Jose-based Silicon Valley Group, an outfit that
sells some $600 million worth of semiconductor-manufacturing gear annually
to the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Neither man is connected to SVG
anymore, says a company spokesperson.

Even if Story and Bertollini are no longer involved in the companies, their
amassed fortunes "are a huge concern," says the ADL's Stengel. But according
to an email response from Bertollini, "We are just two who have come to
TRUTH."